Tag: greece

I honestly couldn’t tell you why I was thinking about this, but one thing I really like at the Met is this pair of bronze eyes. Similar to the Fragment of a Queen’s Face, obviously part of the appeal here is how the incompleteness makes you focus in on certain elements outside their relation to … Continue reading “Pair of Eyes”

During this last trip, I learned a lot about how I want to conduct these “string-gathering” research trips in the future. Like, I learned that even though I’m already a slow traveler, stopping to take extensive notes and observations will slow you down exponentially. I thought I would have more downtime to type things up. … Continue reading “String-Gathering Techniques for Future Me”

Here is the driest, most unwriterly report possible of what I did in Greece, with a minimum of commentary and absolutely nothing of interest to anyone but me whatsoever. I have for the most part gone through and taken out every interesting and amazing thing that happened and replaced it with, “Just the facts.” It … Continue reading “Remember that time I went to Crete?”

Here’s a question I don’t have an answer to: How did actors express emotion on stage in ancient Greek theater? This came up in part because I was reading Oedipus Rex and I realized I really don’t know anything at all about Greek prosody. I know absolutely nothing about the non-natural features of speech that were … Continue reading “Greek Theater Question”

As a side effect of getting really interested in Linear B over the past few weeks, taking an odd shortcut through the problems of relating place names to uncertain geographic locations, and the possibilities of viewing/organizing information associated with both place and time, I found myself procrastinating with Peripleo. It’s a fun tool to play with, … Continue reading “Peripleo”

I enjoyed this more than I think it deserved, honestly. I thought it was shot so beautifully, taking such advantage of Bette Davis's face, and that the tragically repetitive, circling plot kind of worked, for the hammer-loud point the film seemed to be making.